Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-30
LABOR WAGES IN N. G.
RyroRr OF rHg comxnsYoxERs--
SKILLED AND uRsKILLyD LABOR.
BY Rains-Railroad Matters
The Crops, Etc.
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Commissioner Of Labor said to-day
that he was busy tabulating his first
report. II will make volume OF 500
pages. Saturday he sent out inquiries
in regard 10 wages Of operatives in the
cotton and tobacco-factories hours Of
work, and general facts bearing on
their condition. He has completed his
report on the average rate OF wages in
the State. This is found to be 65 cents
per day for unskilled. and 81 .65 for
skilled labor. outside of teamwork.
For The latter work the average daily
pay without board is 80 cents, and with
board 80 cents.
CONTRACT FOR PCBLIC BUILDINGS.
The Governor and the Board on
Public Buildings met to-day and ex-
tended until September 18th the time
for receiving proposals for heating
public buildings. II is understood that
several Richmond bidders will compete
for this contract.
Governor Scales TO day pardoned J.
j. Martin, OF Macon county, who vas
serving ont an eighteen-months' SEN
tence in the penitentiary for larceny.
The warden Of the penitentiary is
preparing 90 send twenty-five more
convicts to the Monroe railroad, making
over $50 on that line.
The corporators of the Durham
and Northern railway met at Durham
to-day TO form a company and TO pre-
sent guarantees that the road will be
built from Durham to Henderson if
Durham subscnbes one hundred thou
sand dollars. Mr.. John NJ. Robinson,
of the Seabosrd road, gives a guarantee
to that effect.
FATAL SHOOTING IN MADISON.
News was received here to-day of q
fatal shooting affair at the Hot Springs.
in Madison county. The names of the
participants are not known. The affair
was The result of quarrel about a
trivial matter.
A great revival is in progress at
Snow Hill, Greene county, conducted
by Rev. Edward f. Harper, OF Cali
fornia. He is only twenty-five years
old, vet has great power. His services
attract thousands of people from all
that section, and the converts are nu-
merous. 1t is the greatest religious
awakening ever known in that part of
the State.
The reports from the counties in the
Newberne section are to the effect that
the rice crop is not greatly injured,
and that one fifth TO one third of the
corn crop is ruined by the rains and
floods.
THE HEAVY RAINS.
The great rain of Saturday appears
to have been worse, as was at first
stated, in the southern section of the
State, and has certainly done a good
deal of damage. The excessive rain
fall since the Goth of July has been q
subject Of general comment, for no.
thing'like IL was ever before known.
The next crop report will be made in
few days. 1T is sure to show a falling
off in the estimates. Some farmers
say the decline is much greater than is
generally believed, and that the /" big
crops" so much talked of six weeks
ago will show great falling off Ger
family the prospects never were fairer.
There were heavy rains again last night
all through this section.
Great damage is reported to crops
along Deep river, part oularly in Chat
ham county, due to f. recent floods.
At Asheyille I gro man named
William II. High, becoming angry with
his son, boy aged nine years, swung
him to q beam of the house by the
hands, and then locked the door and
left him. The chief of police broke
open the door and saved the boy, who
was almost exhausted. The inhuman
father is in Jail.
Mr.. Charles Smith, a graduate OF
Wake Forest, who is now taking a
special course at Johns Hopkins, is
writing g History of Education in
North Carolina" He is an accom-
plished young man who has made his
mark.
RAILROAD WORK.
Work on the railroad from Winston
TO Wilkesboro' must, by the terms OF
the contract with the Richmond and
Danville road, be begun by September
10th in order to fall within the ninety
days specified in the contract. Your
correspondent is assured that work will
begin in time, and that the road will be
completed in the two years time re-
quired.
The man Hover, who created such
str in Piedmont North Carolina some
months ago by alleged incendiary Ian
puage. is reported TO have gone away
"for good" as the phrase goes. He
appears to be pretty well known In sew
ersl of the southern States.
Captain w. A. Babbitt has been APP
pointed chief marshal at the fair of the
Roanoke and Tar-River Agricultural
Society at Weldon.
GRAND LODGE MEETING.
The time of the meeting of the
Grand Lodge of Good Templars in this
State has been changed from the 18th
of September TO the 9th OF October, at
Carthage, Moore county.
II is expected that the attendance at
the Farmers Institute at Warrenton
this week will be exceedingly large IN
fact. that il will be by far the greatest
one held in that section. Some able
speakers will be present.
The reports on the crop of sugar
cane in the State show it to be the
largest in twenty years. Many people
are returning to the old methods OF
making molasses, and recent inventions
enable them to turn out an excellent
article.
A SCHOONER IN INSTRUMENTATION.
II was the schooner Martha which
was driven ont of Neuse river by the
late hurricane and blown entirely
ashore, on high ground. 1t turns out
that the vessel was landed in farmers
melon patch, and that he was very an
CRY when he found her there the next
day. A regular canal will be cut to
float the vessel to the water.
The session Of Wake-Forest College
begins next Thursday. Rev. DIR. G: Il.
Taylor, the president, was here to-day.
He says he expects the attendance to
be fully ND to last year. The labora-
tory win be completed by October LIST.
To-day, at Asheyille, the case OF
Thomas King, for the murder OF his
wife. was taken up. A special Uenire